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by revelio 3y ago
Academic research involves large components of marketing. That's why they grumble so much about the time required in the grant applications process and other fund seeking effort. It's why they so frequently write books, appear in
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by revelio 3y ago
> The risks are definitely real. Just look at the number of smart individuals speaking out about this. In our society smart people are strongly incentivized to invent bizarre risks in order to reap fame and glory. There is no social pe
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> It is difficult to disagree with the potential political and societal impacts of large language models as outlined here Is it? Unless you mean something mundane like "there will be impact", the list of risks they're pr
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by revelio 3y ago
I've read plenty of legal texts and many are far more precise than this. Think tax law, for example. GDPR is certainly not the first. Yes, it's not the only example of vague law, but it's fairly unusual in its international
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by revelio 3y ago
You had lockdowns because politicians were following the instructions of corrupt academics. Lockdowns made no impact on hospital load (can you determine the dates and times of interventions by looking at the graphs I just linked?). Nor did
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by revelio 3y ago
I was referring to Sweden, which did neither lockdowns nor border closures and ended up with one of the lowest death rates in Europe. Lockdowns didn't work, they just made things worse. Anyway, death rates are garbage data during COVID
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Old code continuing to run isn't what people mean by churn though. jquery still runs. The underlying browser APIs are stable. But you can't say React has stable patterns and best practices when the classes->hooks thing has happ
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> Svelte/Solid/Qwik are clearly steps forward from React <sigh> I thought you were going to take the, "Everyone settled on React and now it's all super stable" line.
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You said it correctly. "Average woman programmer" is un-idiomatic English.
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Are you aware that there are several officially sanctioned commissions in the US right now that are recommending huge "reparation" payments, funded through tax? (tax being paid mostly by the well off)
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> Nobody asks such questions about climate change They do actually. Climate doomers are not a pretty group. They do shit like glue themselves to roads and try to vandalize paintings because they're convinced (wrongly) that the world
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A page that has only a single citation, no less.
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At the time of the famine
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It wouldn't. Governments said the hospitals were collapsing because they needed to justify their actions, whilst simultaneously publishing dashboards that showed plenty of free capacity. The problem is that most COVID cases in hospital
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by revelio 3y ago
My post didn't try to get to the root cause of the famine, only to observe that the article is deceptively worded. In other comments I talk about the root causes. The Bengal famine was indeed at least partly man made, but the men who m
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This should be obvious enough to not need pointing out, but at the time of the Bengal famine there was a world war in which Japan was invading Asia and Germany was invading Europe. Many of the things that exacerbated the Bengal famine were
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by revelio 3y ago
These are better points than what the article makes, indeed. There's been an uptick lately of fighting over the Bengal famine. A more neutral evaluation is provided by Encyclopedia Brittanica [1]. The summary is: - Japanese invasions c
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The list comes from a paragraph from Wikipedia, it's not an attempt to comprehensively list every famine. Perhaps someone has done a study on this that has a precise definition of famine and graphs of frequency over time, along with an
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by revelio 3y ago
"Famines struck India from almost the beginning of British colonial rule. In 1770, over one million people died of starvation in Bengal, 13 years after Robert Clive’s seizure of the region following the Battle of Palashee (Plassey). F
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by revelio 3y ago
Reading between the lines, they were uncomfortable about the implication that keynote speech = product direction, for a talk that they didn't want to be perceived as a product direction. Seems like something that can be fixed with a di
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Sadly yes, it's not a new thing. Lisp is a good example of an old language that attracted a very particular community around it that did put some people off.
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It seems to be a recurring problem with Rust (the ecosystem, not the language). One of the nice things about the Kotlin and Java communities is that they lack this kind of endless drama. Technical events stay technical.
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None of those definitions are precise, they are actually circular? I don't really understand how to debate with someone who can't see that, we're just divided by something much deeper than some bullet points. Precision doesn&
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by revelio 3y ago
Curfews and other such measures had no effect and this is clear in the data. It's been looked at extensively and there's no correlation between severity of lockdown measures and outcomes. It was clear lockdowns would end this way
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You're using terms differently. What New Zealand did was border closures. The word lockdowns refers to forcing everyone to stay at home, closing all the businesses and schools. Neither approach worked. The NZ approach merely delayed th
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by revelio 3y ago
> The world would be a much kinder place if we embraced radical cooperation. It would be a horrific dystopia as everyone who tried to implement that has found. Competitive and free socialists always outcompete "radically cooperative
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Of course they did. The alternative was to just keep calm and carry on, like for every other virus outbreak. The idea that COVID required unique measures is not true and had been proven untrue many times in many ways. The correct response w
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The link I already provided has the numbers you're asking for.
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I did read it, but I mentioned it in a reply in a different sub-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36079311#36087598 See the sentence starting "Even the attempted refutation"
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There are two book reviews on the page I linked, both about global cooling. This is what I mean. You're trying to argue using sources but not reading those sources. This point is relevant because you can't directly measure what

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